Milk-bottle handle



C. BUTCHER.

MILK BOTTLE HANDLE.

APPLICATION FILED APR. 15, 1919.

1,338,660, Patented Apr. 27,1920.

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MILK-BOTTLE HANDLE.

Specification of Letters Patent. Patented Apr. 27, 1920- Application filed April 15, 1919. Serial No. 290,138.

To all whom it may concern:

' Be it known that 1, CHARLES DU'rorrER, a citizen of the United States, and resident of the city of Seattle, county of King, and State of Washin ton, have invented certain new and useful mprovements in Milk-Bottle Handles, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to a device which is designed to be secured to milk bottles and to serve as a convenient means for carrying the same. v

The object of my invention is to provide a simple device, which may be furnished by the dealer, or may be owned by the purchaser, which may be applied to any milk bottle of the standard size and construction, so as to provide a convenient handle, or carrier for the same.

My invention consists of the device constructed in accordance with that herein illustrated and described.

The drawings accompanying herewith show the device in its preferred form of construction.

Figure 1 shows the device in perspective detached from a bottle.

Figs. 2 and 3 give two different views of the device as applied to a milk bottle.

In constructing this device, I use a piece of wire 1 which is bent so as to encircle the bottle neck. Its ends are provided with laterally extending tips or cars 2, which are adapted to be engaged with each other so that the parts 20 form interlocking hooks, after the manner shown in Fig. 2. When so interlocked, they will not become disengaged except by the application of force to the outwardly extending ears 2, so as to spring the encircling ring enough to disengage the hooks 20.

To thus engage and disengage the ends, it is necessary to provide a certain amount of resiliency, or spring character in the device. The manner in which this has been done in the device as illustrated, consists in the formation of two loops 3, which are extended away from the general line of the encircling ring and are made with separable sides, so that the sides may be sprung enough to permit engagement and disengagement of the ears 2. These loops 3 also serve as a convenient means for attaching the handle member 4. This handle member 4 is shown as consisting of a wire 40 which passes through a cylinder 41, which may be of wood or of any other suitable character, the wire 40 having its ends bent downward and terminating in eyes 42 which surround and pivotally engage the upper end of the loops 3.

The encircling ring 1 may be placed about the neck of a bottle and below the ring 6 which extends about the mouth of the bottle. The locking hooks 20 are then engaged after the manner shown in Figs. 2 and 3. The loops 3 permit a sufficient amount of spring or give in the ring to permit engagement and disengagement of the hooks. The device is thus readily applied to or removed from a bottle and when applied provides a very convenient and safe handle for the carrying of the bottle.

What I claim as my invention is:

A milk bottle holder comprising a wire bent to encircle the bottle neck, the ends of this wire being provided with hooks adapted to be sprung into interlocking engagement, said wire at diametrically opposite points being provided with upstanding loops of inverted U shape open at the bottom forming handle engaging ears and acting as yielding members to accommodate the holder to varying sizes of bottle necks, and a handle having its ends secured to said loops.

Signed at Seattle, Washington, this 29th day of March, 1919.

CHARLES BUTCHER. 

